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Action for Leisure - National charity promoting play and leisure for disabled people. Advice, information, play products and outreach plus local opportunities project.
National Federation of St Raphael Clubs - Information about aims and activities of clubs around the country for the physically disabled.
Disabled United - UK based friends and dating, chat, swap shop, message board, and links.
Disabled Birders Association - Raising awareness about the needs of disabled birders and trying to improve access. Offers regional fact sheets, optical advice, newsletter, overseas trips and information on reserves.
Extend Exercise Training - Organisation providing recreational movement to music for the elderly and the disabled. Information on classes, teachers and funding.
Albrighton Trust - Centre providing sports, arts, education and recreational facilities for disabled and disadvantaged people and their carers. Fishing, day centre and facilities. Near Wolverhampton.
Penfield Countryside Enjoyment for All - Partnership aiming to provide countryside, woodland walks, picnic areas, fishing access for people of all abilities on two lochs in Dumfries and Galloway.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Recreation "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Recreation A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Recreation The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Recreation The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Recreation The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Recreation Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Recreation In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert Recreation When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Recreation Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Recreation Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Recreation Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi Recreation Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Recreation Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Recreation "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Recreation "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Recreation Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Recreation It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley Recreation
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